FIFA Names Ethics Committee Chairmen

FIFA announced, following a meeting of the executive committee, that Michael J. Garcia, a partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP who was formerly U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, will serve as the chair of the ethics committee’s investigative chamber. Hans-Joachim Eckert, the presiding German penal court judge who has served in the judicial system for the last 30 years, will head the judicial chamber.